Chapter 16 - Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes

The Atlantic Revolutions were a revolutionary wave in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This revolutionary was associated with the Atlantic World during the era from the 1770s to 1820s. There are four revolutions; The North America Revolution, The French Revolution, The Haitian Revolution, and The Spanish American Revolution. During the Echoes of Revolution the main focus was on the abolition of slavery, nations and nationalism, and feminist beginnings. From 1750-1850 was a century of revolutions. Political revolutions occurred in North America, France, Haiti, and Spanish South America. The Columbian Exchange accelerated cultural diffusion and led to radical ideas. Majority of the ideas were inspired by the Enlightenment thinkers. By 1750, the Atlantic basin was the center of cultural, intellectual, and biological exchange. The enlightenment ideas shared through newspapers, essays, pamphlets, and books. When people start reading these articles, it made them to began believing they could finally shape the world around them. The abolition of slavery occurred during 1780 to 1890, a transformation in human affairs as slavery and widely practice. The Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth-century Europe had become increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person, and the public pronouncements of the American and French revolutions about liberty and equality. The Haitian Revolution was followed by the three major rebellions in the British West Indies, all of which were harshly crushed, in the early nineteenth century. Secular, religious, economic, and political came together in abolitionist movements, most powerfully in Britain, which brought growing pressure on governments to close down the the trade slaves and then to ban slavery itself. Around 1807, Britain ban the sale of slaves within its empire and also in 1834 liberate those who remained enslaved. In 1888, Brazil was the last to bringing more than four centuries of Atlantic to an end. Planation owners actively resisted the onslaught of abolitionists. Near the end of the Atlantic slavery, it marked a rapid turn in the world's social history and in the moral thinking of humankind.